Mixed-initiative issues in an agent-based meeting scheduler

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-78

  Cesta, Amedeo ^a   D'Aloisi, Daniela ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SCHEDULING; USER INTERFACES;

MIXED INITIATIVE INTERACTION; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032624608     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008359001692     Document Type: Article

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